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Through the Supporting Partners programme, the Armed Forces Families Fund (AF3) will help strengthen support for partners of serving personnel. The programme aims to help partners make choices that are right for them, recognise and promote their skills and experience, access the support they need, and overcome barriers to employment.

Projects needed to address one or more of the following outcomes:

• Partners of serving personnel have increased their skills and confidence through additional opportunities to explore new ways of working and/or to change careers.

• Partners of serving personnel, including non-UK nationals, are better able to access and engage with employment support that reflects the challenges of service life, such as mobility and separation.

• Service providers and employers demonstrate improved understanding of the unique challenges of service life, enabling more informed and effective support for partners of serving personnel.

• Improved mental health and wellbeing for partners of serving personnel, leading to increased confidence and greater empowerment in personal and career choices that work within service life.

Projects should address the current, emerging and immediate needs of partners of serving personnel, could be regional, national or serve armed forces communities based overseas, and their design should seek to remove barriers to participation and promote inclusivity.

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Geographical areas funded: UK Overseas

Fund type

Type of funding:

Grant

Type of cost:

Revenue, Core costs

Fund award sizes

Minimum:

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Who can apply

UK-based registered charities with substantial recent experience of supporting armed forces communities (registered for at least three years); Community Interest Companies (CICs) with substantial recent experience of supporting armed forces communities (registered for at least three years); armed forces units, bases or stations (UK-based or at an overseas base); and UK universities or colleges. Charities or CICs without substantial recent experience may still apply if they will deliver the project in partnership with an organisation that has that experience, agreed in principle before applying.

When to apply

Now open to applications. The next deadline to apply is 12 noon on 23 September 2026. Organisations will receive a decision before the end of November 2026.

Next deadline: 23 Sep 2026

How to apply

Apply online via the Covenant Fund website. Applications by post or email will not be accepted.

Contact information

Activites funded: Advice and information Education and training Employability services Mental health care

Beneficiaries funded: Families Veterans and armed forces personnel

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